Kops: Plays One

In Bernard Kop's world, escape is always an escape from the inescapable, from one trap to another.

Kops: Plays One Bernard Kops Few writers, even fewer dramatists, have managed to explore so fully our inexhaustible capacity for trying to escape that endless series of traps called Life. In Kops' world, the escape is never conclusive or finite or romantic, but always an escape from the inescapable, from one kind of a trap to another."Includes the plays Playing Sinatra, The Hamlet of Stepney Green, and Ezra Playing Sinatra explores with humour our inexhaustible capacity for trying to escape the traps in life. The Hamlet of Stepney Green, a sad comedy, is full of lively songs. Sam Levy is about to die, and is fearful for the survival of his community of the East End. He is also fearful for his son's future. Ezra is about the anti-Semitism and treachery of the great poet Ezra Pound, and his subsequent incarceration and remorse."